Johann Nepomuk Fuchs was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n composer

Composer

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 and conductor

Conducting

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, and the brother of Robert Fuchs

Robert Fuchs

Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....

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Fuchs was born at Frauental

Frauental an der Laßnitz

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, Styria. He worked as a conductor in Bratislava

Bratislava

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, Brno

Brno

Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

, Cologne

Cologne

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, Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, and Leipzig

Leipzig

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, before he became Kapellmeister

Kapellmeister

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 of the Wiener Hofoper

Vienna State Opera

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 in 1880 and Vice Kapellmeister in 1894. In 1888, he joined the faculty of the Vienna Conservatory, where his pupils included Alexander von Zemlinsky

Alexander von Zemlinsky

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, and was named Director of the institution five years later. Fuchs composed opera

Opera

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s and stage music

Incidental music

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. He also edited operas by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...

, George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...

, and Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

, and acted as an advisor to Breitkopf & Härtel

Breitkopf & Härtel

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 in the publication of the Schubert-Gesamtausgabe (Complete Schubert Edition). He died at Bad Vöslau

Bad Vöslau

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, Lower Austria

Lower Austria

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